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June 12, 2015

June 12, 2015 2:22 PM

A look at the best news photos from around the world.

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South Korean health officials fumigate a theater while wearing protective gear in Seoul. South Korea reported four more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), bringing to 126 the total number of people diagnosed with the potentially deadly virus.

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A child is embraced by his mother in front of the migration center next to the Tiburtina station in Rome, Italy. The European Union has tripled funding for rescue missions in the Mediterranean after a shipwreck killed some 800 migrants in April, but it is still trying to find a way to cope with those who arrive, and to relieve the burden on southern countries like Italy and Greece.

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Yemenis search for survivors under the rubble of houses in a UNESCO-listed heritage site in the old city of Yemeni capital Sanaa following an overnight Saudi-led airstrike. Residents said the pre-dawn strike, which killed five people, was the first direct hit on old Sanaa since the launch of the bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in late March.

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Dresses and skirts are seen hanging inside a stadium, in an art exhibition titled "Thinking of You" by Kosovo-born, London-based artist Alketa Xhafa-Mripa, in Pristina, Kosovo. Dresses and skirts donated by Cherie Blair and Rita Ora were among 5,000 pegged to washing lines in the stadium to draw attention to the stigma suffered by victims of wartime sexual violence.